About us
A book club for people who mean to read more and sometimes do. We pick one book a month, you read it, you show up. Just good books, honest conversations, intelligent questions and the quiet solidarity of fellow imperfect readers.
Upcoming events
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The Sellout. June. The Irregulars
·OnlineOnlineThe Irregulars – A Book Club for the Admirably Inconsistent
There is a word for people who read every book they start, finish every chapter they begin, and never once fall asleep with a novel on their face. That word is imaginary. The rest of us are Irregulars.
We are readers the way the weather is reliable full of good intentions, occasionally magnificent, and prone to long unexplained absences. We have been known to buy a book, admire it on a shelf for six months, and then order a second copy because we forgot we had the first. We dog-ear pages. We lose our place. We once read the same paragraph four times because we were thinking about lunch. We are not proud. We are not ashamed. We are human, and we have found each other.
The Irregulars meets once a month. The rules are simple and sensible:
Read the book. (We trust you. Mostly.)
Come.
That's it.No quiz. No essay. No one will ask you to cite your favourite part. We will, however, ask three intriguing questions every time we meet and we expect you to have a thought, which is why rule one exists.
📚 The 2026 Reading List
(All linked to World of Books — because a book read on a budget is a book read twice as smugly.)
- May. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. 720 pages about friendship, suffering, and the distinct possibility that you will cry on public transport.
- June. The Sellout by Paul Beatty. Man Booker winner. Blistering satire on race in America. Funnier than it has any right to be, given the subject matter.
- July. India: A History by John Keay. Five thousand years of the subcontinent in one volume. For those of us who like to feel simultaneously educated and humbled.
- August. No God But God by Reza Aslan. A clear-eyed, compassionate history of Islam. Required reading for anyone who gets their theology from cable news.
- September. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Neither brief, nor confined to seven killings. Booker Prize winner. Epic, violent, astonishing.
- October. The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore. All of human history through the lens of family. "Succession meets Game of Thrones" according to The Spectator, which may be the most accurate book blurb ever written.
- November. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Booker-shortlisted debut. Obsession, desire, and the long shadow of WWII in the Dutch countryside. Not as gentle as it sounds.
- December. Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. End the year by learning why chaos might actually be good for you. A fitting note for a club that has made a philosophy out of imperfection.
1 attendeeThe Sellout. June. The Irregulars
·OnlineOnlineThe Irregulars – A Book Club for the Admirably Inconsistent
There is a word for people who read every book they start, finish every chapter they begin, and never once fall asleep with a novel on their face. That word is imaginary. The rest of us are Irregulars.
We are readers the way the weather is reliable full of good intentions, occasionally magnificent, and prone to long unexplained absences. We have been known to buy a book, admire it on a shelf for six months, and then order a second copy because we forgot we had the first. We dog-ear pages. We lose our place. We once read the same paragraph four times because we were thinking about lunch. We are not proud. We are not ashamed. We are human, and we have found each other.
The Irregulars meets once a month. The rules are simple and sensible:
Read the book. (We trust you. Mostly.)
Come.
That's it.No quiz. No essay. No one will ask you to cite your favourite part. We will, however, ask three intriguing questions every time we meet and we expect you to have a thought, which is why rule one exists.
📚 The 2026 Reading List
(All linked to World of Books — because a book read on a budget is a book read twice as smugly.)
- May. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. 720 pages about friendship, suffering, and the distinct possibility that you will cry on public transport.
- June. The Sellout by Paul Beatty. Man Booker winner. Blistering satire on race in America. Funnier than it has any right to be, given the subject matter.
- July. India: A History by John Keay. Five thousand years of the subcontinent in one volume. For those of us who like to feel simultaneously educated and humbled.
- August. No God But God by Reza Aslan. A clear-eyed, compassionate history of Islam. Required reading for anyone who gets their theology from cable news.
- September. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Neither brief, nor confined to seven killings. Booker Prize winner. Epic, violent, astonishing.
- October. The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore. All of human history through the lens of family. "Succession meets Game of Thrones" according to The Spectator, which may be the most accurate book blurb ever written.
- November. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Booker-shortlisted debut. Obsession, desire, and the long shadow of WWII in the Dutch countryside. Not as gentle as it sounds.
- December. Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. End the year by learning why chaos might actually be good for you. A fitting note for a club that has made a philosophy out of imperfection.
1 attendeeThe Sellout. June. The Irregulars
·OnlineOnlineThe Irregulars – A Book Club for the Admirably Inconsistent
There is a word for people who read every book they start, finish every chapter they begin, and never once fall asleep with a novel on their face. That word is imaginary. The rest of us are Irregulars.
We are readers the way the weather is reliable full of good intentions, occasionally magnificent, and prone to long unexplained absences. We have been known to buy a book, admire it on a shelf for six months, and then order a second copy because we forgot we had the first. We dog-ear pages. We lose our place. We once read the same paragraph four times because we were thinking about lunch. We are not proud. We are not ashamed. We are human, and we have found each other.
The Irregulars meets once a month. The rules are simple and sensible:
Read the book. (We trust you. Mostly.)
Come.
That's it.No quiz. No essay. No one will ask you to cite your favourite part. We will, however, ask three intriguing questions every time we meet and we expect you to have a thought, which is why rule one exists.
📚 The 2026 Reading List
(All linked to World of Books — because a book read on a budget is a book read twice as smugly.)
- May. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. 720 pages about friendship, suffering, and the distinct possibility that you will cry on public transport.
- June. The Sellout by Paul Beatty. Man Booker winner. Blistering satire on race in America. Funnier than it has any right to be, given the subject matter.
- July. India: A History by John Keay. Five thousand years of the subcontinent in one volume. For those of us who like to feel simultaneously educated and humbled.
- August. No God But God by Reza Aslan. A clear-eyed, compassionate history of Islam. Required reading for anyone who gets their theology from cable news.
- September. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Neither brief, nor confined to seven killings. Booker Prize winner. Epic, violent, astonishing.
- October. The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore. All of human history through the lens of family. "Succession meets Game of Thrones" according to The Spectator, which may be the most accurate book blurb ever written.
- November. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Booker-shortlisted debut. Obsession, desire, and the long shadow of WWII in the Dutch countryside. Not as gentle as it sounds.
- December. Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. End the year by learning why chaos might actually be good for you. A fitting note for a club that has made a philosophy out of imperfection.
1 attendeeThe Sellout. June. The Irregulars
·OnlineOnlineThe Irregulars – A Book Club for the Admirably Inconsistent
There is a word for people who read every book they start, finish every chapter they begin, and never once fall asleep with a novel on their face. That word is imaginary. The rest of us are Irregulars.
We are readers the way the weather is reliable full of good intentions, occasionally magnificent, and prone to long unexplained absences. We have been known to buy a book, admire it on a shelf for six months, and then order a second copy because we forgot we had the first. We dog-ear pages. We lose our place. We once read the same paragraph four times because we were thinking about lunch. We are not proud. We are not ashamed. We are human, and we have found each other.
The Irregulars meets once a month. The rules are simple and sensible:
Read the book. (We trust you. Mostly.)
Come.
That's it.No quiz. No essay. No one will ask you to cite your favourite part. We will, however, ask three intriguing questions every time we meet and we expect you to have a thought, which is why rule one exists.
📚 The 2026 Reading List
(All linked to World of Books — because a book read on a budget is a book read twice as smugly.)
- May. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. 720 pages about friendship, suffering, and the distinct possibility that you will cry on public transport.
- June. The Sellout by Paul Beatty. Man Booker winner. Blistering satire on race in America. Funnier than it has any right to be, given the subject matter.
- July. India: A History by John Keay. Five thousand years of the subcontinent in one volume. For those of us who like to feel simultaneously educated and humbled.
- August. No God But God by Reza Aslan. A clear-eyed, compassionate history of Islam. Required reading for anyone who gets their theology from cable news.
- September. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Neither brief, nor confined to seven killings. Booker Prize winner. Epic, violent, astonishing.
- October. The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore. All of human history through the lens of family. "Succession meets Game of Thrones" according to The Spectator, which may be the most accurate book blurb ever written.
- November. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Booker-shortlisted debut. Obsession, desire, and the long shadow of WWII in the Dutch countryside. Not as gentle as it sounds.
- December. Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. End the year by learning why chaos might actually be good for you. A fitting note for a club that has made a philosophy out of imperfection.
1 attendee
